Canadian Studies Considered: Response to “A Model Environmental Nation? Canada as a Case Study for Informing US Environmental Policy”

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Notes

1. Smith, Heather, 2010. “The Disciplining Nature of Canadian Foreign Policy,” in J. Marshall Beier and Lana Wylie (eds.) Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective (Toronto: Oxford), p. 7.

2. Cox, Robert, and Timothy Sinclair. 1996. Approaches to World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 87.

3. Smith, Steve, 2004. “Singing Our World into Existence: International Relations Theory and September 11,” International Studies Quarterly, 48, p. 503.

4. Cox, op. cit., p. 89.

5. Cox, op. cit., p. 87.

6. Cox, op. cit., p. 90.

7. This section is drawn from an analysis of: Lorraine Elliott “Global Governance” in Rorden Wilkinson and Steve Hughes (eds) Global Governance: Critical Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2002); Lorraine Elliott, The Global Politics of the Environment (New York University Press: New York, 1998); Karen Litfin, “Constructing Environmental Security and Ecological Interdependence” in Global Governance Vol. 5 (1999), pp. 359–378.; Simon Dalby, “Ecological Metaphors of Security: World Politics in the Biosphere” in Alternatives Vol. 23, (1998), pp. 291–320; Simon Dalby, “Geopolitical Identities: Arctic Ecology and Global Consumption” in Geopolitics Vol. 8 No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 181–202; Matthew Paterson, “Post-Hegemonic Climate Politics?” in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations Vol. 11, (2009), pp. 140–158; Lee-Anne Broadhead, International Environmental Politics: The Limits of Green Diplomacy (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002).

8. Broadhead, op cit., p. 23.

9. Ibid., p. 20.

10. Litfin, op. cit.

11. Dalby, “Geopolitical Identities”, p. 197

12. Sylvester, Christine, “Anatomy of a Footnote” Security Dialogue 38, no. 4 (2007), p. 547.

13. Smith, Heather, op. cit.

14. Walt, Stephen M., 2005. “The Relationship Between Theory and Policy in International Relations” in Annual Review of Political Science, 8, p. 40.

15. Ibid., pp. 41–42.

16. Smith, Heather A. “Political Parties and Canadian Climate Change Policy” in International Journal, Winter 2008–9, p. 62.

17. Ibid., p. 64.

18. See for example, Smith, Heather A. 2007. “Disrupting the Global Discourse of Climate Change: The Case of Indigenous Voices” in Mary Pettenger (ed), The Social Construction of Climate Change, Ashgate Press., pp. 197–215; MacDonald, Doug and Heather Smith. 1999–2000. Promises Made, Promises Broken: Questioning Canada's Commitments to Climate Change in International Journal 55 (1), pp. 107–124.

19. See for example, MacDonald, Doug and Debora VanNijnatten, 2005., “Sustainable Development and Kyoto Implementation: The Road Not Taken” in Policy Options, July–August, pp. 13–19.

20. Newman, Joshua, and Michael Howlett. 2008. “Quebec: Canada's Champion in the Fight AgainstClimate Change”. Policy Options July–August: 76–80.

21. Kukucha, Christopher J. 2005. “From Kyoto to the WTO: Evaluating the Constitutional Legitimacy of the Provinces in Canadian Foreign Trade and Environmental Policy” in Canadian Journal of Political Science 38 (1): 129–152.

22. Boucher, Jean-Christophe, and Stephane Roussel. 2008. “From Afghanistan to “Quebecistan”: Quebec as Pharmakon of Canadian Foreign and Defence policy”. In Canada among nations 2007: What room for manoeuvre?ed. Jean Daudelin and Daniel Schwanen. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 128–156.

23. Stilborn, Jack. 2002. The Kyoto Protocol: Intergovernmental issues. Ottawa: Library of Parliament Parliamentary Research Branch. http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/PRB-e/PRB0221-e.pdf.

24. See RousselStephane and Fossum John Erik, 2010. “The Arctic is Hot” International Journal, vol. LXV, no 4, Autumn.

25. See Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, 2010. “Statement on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy: Exercising Sovereignty and Promoting Canada's Northern Strategy Abroad,” www.international.gc.ca; and Government of Canada. 2009. “Canada's Northern Strategy: Our North, Our Heritage, Our Future,” www.northernstrategy.gc.ca.

26. Dalby, op. cit.

27. See for example Ford, James. et al. (2010). “Climate Change Policy Responses of Canada's Inuit Population: The Importance of and Opportunities for Adaptation.” Global Environmental Change, 20, pp. 177–191; Ford, James and Smit, Barry. (2004). “A Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Communities in the Canadian Arctic to Risks Associated with Climate Change.” Arctic, 57 (4), pp. 389–400.

28. See for example, Watt-Cloutier, Sheila. (2006). “The Arctic and the Global Environment: Making a Difference on Climate Change” speaking notes from Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Alaska World Affairs Council, Anchorage, Alaska February 10, available at: http://inuitcircumpolar.com/index.php?auto_slide=&ID=324&Lang=En&Parent_ID=&current_slide_num and Watt-Cloutier, Sheila. (2009). “Reclaiming the Moral High Ground: Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Human Rights,” speaking notes from Sheila Watt-Cloutier, panel presentation at Indigenous Peoples Day, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 12, available at: http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/4567_reclaiming_the_moral_high_ground/

29. Diane Raptosh et al.2009. “So Close Yet So Far Away: American Academics on the Similarities and Differences Between the United States and Canada Following the International Canadian Studies Institute” in American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 39, no 1, (March) p.11.

30. Ibid.